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The Isenberg School of Management has appointed Nefertiti Walker, professor of sport managerment, to the newly created position of associate dean for an inclusive organization. In 2017, Walker was appointed the school’s director of diversity and inclusion. Since beginning her new role in January, Walker oversees the school’s human resources department and strategic vision for diversity.

Christos Dimitrakopoulos, professor of chemical engineering, is among 66 academic inventors named by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) to the inaugural class of NAI Senior Members. The class represents 37 NAI member institutions, including research universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes.

Josephus Olufemi “Femi” Richards, professor emeritus of Afro-American studies, died on Sunday, Feb. 3.
Born on March 17, 1942 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, he moved to the U.S. in 1967.
Before moving to the U.S., he received his bachelor’s degree from Ahmadu Bello University in...

Eric Poehler, associate professor of classics, has received a $245,000 grant from the Getty Foundation to complete a three-year project titled the Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project (PALP), an online resource designed to contextualize detailed descriptions of Pompeii's artwork within its well-...

The College of Engineering is recognizing its 26 most accomplished, first-year doctoral students with the distinction of Dean’s Fellows for 2018-19, a program which rewards entering Ph.D. students with financial support, academic acknowledgement and career-making research opportunities....

Laura Bradley, assistant professor of polymer science and engineering, recently was awarded a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will support her research on producing soft materials with ordered and oriented...

Developmental psychologist Kirby Deater-Deckard, psychological and brain sciences, is a co-investigator on a recently renewed five-year, $3.7 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse to support a research team studying the environmental and neurobiological risk factors...

UMass Center for Data Science professor Benjamin Marlin has received a three-year, $250,000 National Science Foundation grant from its Computer and Information Science and Engineering Community Research Infrastructure program to develop mResearch, a platform for reproducible and extensible research...

Adam Grabell, psychological and brain sciences, was recently awarded a seed grant of $15,000, with an additional $10,000 in facilities costs, from the Institute for Applied Life Sciences’ (IALS) Center for Personalized Health Monitoring to support a study of preschool children’s...

Joydeep Biswas, assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Sciences, has recently been awarded an Amazon Research Award of $80,000 to fund his research on modeling dynamic human environments for robot perception.
“Autonomous mobile robots need to accurately and...

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University of Massachusetts Amherst alumna Li Li Leung ’03 MBA, MS has been appointed president and CEO of USA Gymnastics, the national governing body for the sport in the United States. Leung says her extensive experience as both a former gymnast and seasoned sports management professional has prepared her for this exciting career move.

The five UMass campuses and the UMass System Office have been studying a shared service arrangement for a select set of administrative operations with the goals of increased efficiency, improved customer service and cost savings for the campuses.
The first phase of the implementation will focus on...

Sam the Minuteman spread some love on campus Feb. 14 by handing out some sweet surprises. Whether you were lucky enough to get one of his UMass-themed valentines or not, you can check out his adventures here.

The university will launch a search for a new vice chancellor for student affairs and campus life following Enku Gelaye’s announcement that she will be leaving the position in June 2019.
Gelaye has been appointed vice president and dean of campus life at Emory University in Atlanta. Gelaye joined...

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UMass students, faculty, staff and alumni love their pets every day, but they shared some fun photos with us on Feb. 20, which is "Love Your Pet Day." Check out some furry friends around campus or in UMass gear in our Facebook post. Be sure to "like" our page while you are there!

On Tuesday, Feb. 26, the department of music and dance will present the inaugural Dance Science Symposium from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in Hasbrouck Hall, Room 20. The free event will bring together dancers and dance scientists to discuss critical and emerging research within the field of dance science and medicine.

On Monday, Jan. 28, the College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) unveiled its new makerspace. The innovative space, 2,970 square feet on the first floor of the Lederle Graduate Research Center, will provide aspiring makers in CICS with the materials and machinery they need to create physical projects.